People who know you from Game of Thrones and as Conan the Barbarian, might be surprised that you’ve written and directed your first film Road to Paloma.
A lot of people don’t know who I am, and that’s fine. I grew up in a very small town in Iowa. Not a lot of race, no one gives a shit about your looks, nor did I. I grew up with a single mother watching Gone With the Wind and Barbara Streisand movies, not Conan and people getting their heads lopped off. After being in Game of Thrones, I was tired of waiting by the phone and getting roles I didn’t want. So that’s why we went out and did Road to Paloma.
The film is based around a loophole in the justice system, where non-Native Americans committing crimes like rape on reservations often escape prosecution.
If they’re not from tribal land they can’t be prosecuted by tribal law. It has to go to federal court so a lot of cases are thrown out. Over 80 per cent of reported rapes are by non-natives. That’s fucking scary. If someone hurt my wife or my daughter or my mother and the law didn’t take care of it, what would I do? I know what I would do, for me that person is not going to be around.
And so your character in the film Robert Wolf takes justice into his own hands.
As an actor you think that would be something amazing to play, and I wanted to play something different, not do a chase movie or a revenge movie. I wanted to make something deeper and soulful. It’s about a guy saying goodbye to his life.
